Typefoundries Netherlands Fifteenth Nineteenth (3 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,3900grams, ISBN:9070024136. …

Condition: Very Good.

Haarlem, Stichting Museum Enschedé, 1978. Folio. xxviii,477,[1] pp. With frontispiece, and hundreds of figs in the text. Half-calf in cardboard slipcase. (slipcase damaged and a bit spotted; leather a bit foxed; else very good) Colophon: "Composed by hand in Romanée, a type designed by Jan van Krimpen, cut by P.H. Rädisch and cast in the typefoundry of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen [.]. The book was bound by Brandt-Weesp [.]. Layout and design by Bram de Does." This is no. [225] of 1500 + L copies. NB: The colophon calls for a portrait in 2 colours, ours is solely printed in black. Revised, translated edition, of the 1908-edition in French: Fonderies de caractères et leur matériel dans les Pays-Bas du XVe au XIXe siècle. WITH the loose-leaf present: a type specimen issued by Jan van Hout, Leiden, between 1593-1597 (of which the original has been lost; this specimen reproduced from a photograph in the Enschedé archives). - heavy book, additional postage may be required.…